Bots & A.I. On The Forum.

[HouseMD]

One thing that grinds my gears on this forum is the amount of f***ing bots that try to make accounts and then post shit. They're so frustrating. I didn't log in for a few days and when I signed back in I had almost 30 notifications from bots wanting approval. @Winston and @fschmidt should be able to relate to how frustrating this is lol.

Anyway, speaking of which it has recently been brought to my attention that member @josephty2 is a bot. Apparently from what I've been told his posts don't make any sense at all and seem more like spam. I've tagged Josephty2 here so he has a chance to defend himself if he is human

Does anyone else have anything to add about this or evidence to support that he is actually a bot? If he is his account should be deleted.

@Lucas88
@MarcosZeitola
@publicduende
@Yohan
@galii
@MrMan
@WanderingProtagonist
@Natural_Born_Cynic
@kangarunner
@gsjackson

Apologies to anyone not included. Obviously anyone is entitled to a say.

I'm not a bot. You just don't like or understand what I'm posting. Or you ignore me basically.

Who are you, Pixel--Dude, you're calling me out. Is it my reply to Dan cilley? Please be honest. I mostly reply to

MarcosZeitola
galii
MrMan
WanderingProtagonist
Natural_Born_Cynic
Winston

I don't usually reply to other users. Perhaps reply in other threads by quotation of my posts and I would clarify for you. If you don't think I'm human I'll take that as an insult.

I am aware of other users idk paloaltoguy came up in one of the recent posts. You think I'm one of the older users? What evidence do you have to justify that?

I think I remind you of a former ex girlfriend of yours. I think. I'm not sure how. Obviously I'm a dude irl so idk. I'm not gonna send a link of my photo. I mean I've heard of president names as usernames before. But seriously?

Edit: it took me 20 minutes to understand. When a professor assigned readings I realize some students skim 5% of the required texts. I often provide links. I realize no one clicks on them. You can't assume you know. I get it, professors are terrible at making syllabus and grading properly. Professors who grade a certain way to reward reading entire texts typically either get denied tenure or get fired for something silly, though it's correlates, so they may be denied tenure for lack of research funds or fired for something like sexual misconduct.

Your posts generally make me feel like I'm having a stroke, it's actually quite impressive

[galii]

@HouseMD

Hey doc can you make a mental healh ranking regarding the members here? Who is the most sane one?

[HouseMD]

@HouseMD

Hey doc can you make a mental healh ranking regarding the members here? Who is the most sane one?

Oh Jesus, opening with the hard questions lol

[Winston]

@publicduende
@Winston
@WanderingProtagonist
@Roccia

Aren't those Captcha images effective at catching out bots? A simple solution to this issue I think is to see if our friend can solve a Captcha image?

@josephty2 can you please solve the image below. That should prove you're not a bot. Also can you tell me where you are from without directing me to one of your old accounts? You deleted the content on those accounts as well.



If you can't solve this then I'll highly suspect you're a bot.

But Pixel Dude, that's an easy captcha. Even a bot can solve that. A good captcha has lines and waves in it to confuse the bots. The best ones nowadays are those puzzle type ones that say "Click on all squares that contain a stoplight" or something like that. Bots have a hard time solving those. You should have given josephty2 one of those. lol. I wonder how we can get that type of puzzle for our captcha. Maybe I'll ask the developer. I haven't updated the forum in a long time too.

[josephty2]

What about this one, @Winston?



@josephty2 can you solve this CAPTCHA above? How many images have buses and which rows or columns are they on?

2 images

Row 2, col 1

Row 3, col 3

[publicduende]

What about this one, @Winston?

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@josephty2 can you solve this CAPTCHA above? How many images have buses and which rows or columns are they on?

@Pixel--Dude @Winston I think these kinds of tests are irrelevant. @josephty2 is a human user who pastes text off ChatGPT to make his posts longer and, if you ask me, more nonsensical and annoying.